Archive for May, 2009

iPhone replacing “Xx” with “Fx”

Every time I text my girlfriend, and put two x’s at the end like this:
Xx

My iPhone feels it necessary to replace it with “Fx”
Apparently the software learns what you want after a certain amour of corrections, however after literally hundreds, my iPhone still does it!!

C# WordPress Wrapper

Ok, I’ve barely finished this as a stable release, but I thought I’d post this up any way….

A little open source project I’m working on – Joe Blogs.

In a nutshell, it allows easy communication to your WordPress (or other blog) via an xml-rpc interface.

Big thanks to the work by Charles Cook at http://www.xml-rpc.net/

Joe Blogs is currently hosted on CodePlex – http://joeblogs.codeplex.com/

I’ll be posting more info, tutorials, documentation etc… in the coming days and weeks.

Update

See here for usage instructions:
http://www.alexjamesbrown.com/geek/using-joeblogs/

TinyURL API

The popular url shortening service, TinyUrl has an API.

This is probably the most simple API I’ve come across:

http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://www.alexjamesbrown.com

(obviously, you can replace http://www.alexjamesbrown.com with any URL)

How To Take Screenshots Of The iPhone

Ever wondered how they take those screenshot of applications on an iPhone? Simple:

  1. Press and hold the home button
    Press the lock / on / off button on the top.

Below is an image illustrating this a bit better.

iphoneScreenShotHowTo

The image is then stored in your camera roll, and you can get it the same way you get at all the other photos on your iPhone.

Logitech Pure-Fit Anywhere

I was excited to receive my Logitech Pure-Fi Anywhere today (i bought v1 – v2 includes shielding so you can use the iPhone with it, however, I don’t store a great deal of music on my iPhone)

However, once I’d plugged it in, following the instruction (for a change) it did… nothing.
No lights lit up, as the instructions told me they would do. i resigned to the fact, it was faulty.

After Googling, I found a number of other people had the same issue.
Their advice, was to adjust 2 pins, at the bottom of the plug (before plugging in the country specific adapter)

I’ve included a picture below to illustrate (sorry for the shoddy image, an iPhone isn’t famed for it’s camera quality)

plug

Simply bending these pins downwards (towards the cable) very slightly, seems to give it a better connection.

I can’t see this being a requirement very often – only if you change the plug all the time.